Finally, it is worth mentioning that 23 out of the 40 “low profile” detainees represented by HIAS Greece were eventually found to belong to one of the vulnerable categories. Sixteen of them were reassessed as vulnerable while they were still in detention, most of them on the basis of their asylum interview. Inhuman and degrading detention conditions The detention conditions in the Lesvos PRDC amount to inhuman and degrading treatment. The number of detainees in each container varies from nine to twelve persons and the size of each cell/container is 47 m².16 Upon arrival, each detainee receives a clean blanket, but no bedsheets. Depending on stock and available donations by humanitarian organizations, they either receive an insufficient quantity of hygiene items (e.g. toothpaste, shampoo, washing powder) or no hygiene products at all. Additionally, there is no access to clean water. Although the detainees are required to clean the containers themselves, they are not provided with the necessary cleaning products. Furthermore, blankets are never changed and they are not provided with a clean change of clothes or any shoes during the period of their detention. The food is of poor quality and quantity. Yard time usually fluctuates between two to three hours per day. The detainees have access to their cellphones only during the weekend, which makes communication with lawyers and outside organizations particularly difficult. While they are allowed to use the payphones of the detention center, they cannot afford the calling cards, and there is no commissary in the Lesvos PRDC where they could purchase such cards. Additionally, there are no interpretation services in the PRDC, which makes the communication between guards and detainees impossible. Medical services in the detention center are alarmingly inadequate. As of approximately March 2018, the provision of medical services in the Lesvos PRDC has been entrusted to “AEMY SA” (in English: “Health Units SA”), a “legal entity of private law in the form of a ‘Societe Anonyme’, the Greek State being its sole shareholder.”17 From the beginning of its operation, AEMY’s medical team had consisted of only one psychologist and one social worker, while the latter resigned in April 2019 and has not been replaced as of December 2019. AEMY has been operating without interpretation services, with the exception of an interpreter in Arabic between September 2018 and January 2019. Occasionally, the staff resorts to the already strained teleinterpretation services of the Greek NGO “METAdrasi” (in English: “METAction”). 16 Report to the Government of Greece on the visit to Greece carried out by the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) from 10 to 19 April 2018 [CPT/Inf (2019) 4]. CPT, February 2019, para. 103, https://rm.coe.int/1680930c9a 17 http://www.aemy.gr/en/ Welcome the stranger. Protect the refugee. | 15 15